[Hackability] Fwd: [hackerspaces] Networking on the East Coast

[Liz Henry]

A general call for IT/network geeks to go work on the East Coast to set
up mesh networks. They specifically cite helping people with
disabilities as their goal.

Pass it on if you know anyone who might be interested!

I am a bit leery of FEMA after dealing with them during Katrina relief
work. But this could be an opportunity to do some really good work.

- Liz


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Subject: [hackerspaces] Networking on the East Coast
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:11:55 -0700
From: Willow Brugh <willow.bl00 at gmail.com>
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Request from FEMA has come in to help set up networks on the East Coast.
If you're around, please help out. And maybe my ulterior motive is
getting some mesh networking infrastructure in place.

>> 
Still in process of quantifying need, will find out today or Thursday
when DRCs open up:

Quick white paper below:

We need your assistance. I just had a discussion with Senior Advisor on
Disability Issues and FEMA’s Senior Tech Advisor. We need your help to
mobilize the community in the next couple of days to help us reach
disaster survivors. Additionally, this is likely being done-if you know
who, please get us in touch with these individuals.



Marcie’s team is taking innovative steps to streamline communication
efforts to provide equal access to effective communication for people
with communication disabilities (people who are deaf or hard of hearing,
blind or have low vision, low literacy, speech disabilities). One of
these steps include sending 175 iPads to Disaster Recovery Centers.
These ipads will be used as a communication tool through visual aids
that allows disaster survivors to communicate with FEMA and others who
provide disaster services to meet survivors’ needs.



What we need?



Point of contact to mobilize volunteer IT communities to help us build
wireless at these locations that are outside the firewall so that we can
have these conversations with disaster survivors (wireless in these
locations may only be accessible to FEMA employees.) Marcie has indicated
the Ipads are 4G and need consistent and fast internet connections. She
is going to be providing the locations of where this will need to be up
and running.



Can we get your help to mobilize community assistance to get wireless up
and going to help disaster survivors with disabilities and others with
access and functional nedds.



What we are asking?



Volunteer IT community member(s) to go to the locations that Marcie will
provide in the next couple of days to set up wireless for this to occur.



Willow Brugh // willowbl00 <http://blog.bl00cyb.org/>



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